A new state law signed this week by Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds will allow the Iowa Farm Bureau along with Wellmark to sell new health benefit plans. Iowa Farm Bureau President Craig Hill says the new law corrects a problem created by the Affordable Care Act.
He says one of the pressing issues for farmers and ranchers has been the inability of them to access affordable health care.
Hill sees several Iowans signing onto their new health benefit package with it becoming available the end of this year or early next year.
The Iowa Farm Bureau plan is under the rules for association plans offered by groups that have something in common such as belonging to an association or small employer. The Trump administration is drawing up new rules to offer health benefits outside the Affordable Care Act.
